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Ctf/^relaxeth : As it is feen in Urine , B loud, Pottage, or the like $ which, if 

 they be Cold, Break, and diflolve. And by this kind of Relaxation, Fear 

 loofeneth the Belly becaufe the Heat retiring inwards towards the Heart, 

 the Guts and other Parts are relaxed-, In the fame manner d&Fear alio 

 caufeth Trembling in the Sinewes. And of this Kind of Purgers are fome 

 Medicines made of Mercury. 



The Seventh Caufe is Abftcrftont, which is plainly a Scouring of, or In- 

 cision of the more vifcons Humors, and making the Humours more fluide 

 And Cutting between them, and the Part. As is found in Nitrous Water, 

 which fcoureth Linnen Cloth (fpeedily) from the Foulnefs. But this In- 

 cision muft be by a Sharpnefs, without AflncJion : which we find in Salt, 

 Wor me wood, Oxyme I, and the like. 



There be Medicine s T tbat move Stooles^nd noiUrine 5 Some other Urine, 

 and not Stooles. Thofe that Purge by Stool, are men as enter not at all,or lit- 

 tle into the Mefentery veines But either at the firft are not digeftible by the 

 Stomack, and therefore move immediately downwards to the Guts •, Or elfe 

 are afterwards rejected by the Mejentery Femes, and fo turn likewife down- 

 wards to the Guts 5 and of thefe two kinds are moft Purgers. But thofe that 

 move Urine, are fuch as are well digefted of the Stomack, and well received 

 alfo of the Mefentery veines ; fo they come as far as the Liver, which fen- 

 deth Urine to the Bladder, as the Whey of B loud : And thofe Medicines being 

 Opening and Piercing, dofortifie the Operation of the Liver, in fending 

 down the wheyey Part of the Bloud to the Meines. For Medicines Urinative 

 do not work by Rejedtion,and Indigeftion, as Solutive do. 



There be divers Medicines, which in greater Quantity, move Stool,znd in 

 fmaller, Urine ': And fo contrariwife, fome that in greater Quantity, move 

 Urine, and in Smaller, Stool. Of the former fort is Rubarb, and fome others. 

 The Caufe is, for that Rubarb is a Medicine, which the Stomack in a fmall 

 Quantity doth digeft,and overcome, (being not Flatuous, nor Loathfome g 

 and fo fendeth it to the Mefentery veines $ And fo being opening, it helpeth 

 down Urine : But in a greater Quantity, the Stomach cannot overcome it, 

 and fo it goeth to the Guts. Pepper by fome of the Ancients is noted to be 

 of the fecond fort ^ which being in fmall Quantity, moveth wind in the 

 Stomack or Guts, and fo expelled by Stool $ But being in greater guanti- 

 ry,dnTipateth the Winds And it felf getteth to the Mejentery vams h And 

 lo to the Live ryand Reines where, by Heating and Opening, it fendeth 

 down Urine more plentifully. 



WE have fpoken of Evacuating of the B ody, we will now fpeak fome- 

 thingof the Filling of it by Refloratives iwCcrifumptions, and Ema- 

 ciating Difeafes. In Vegetables, there is one part that is more Nourifhing than 

 another - 7 As Graines and Roots nouriih more, than the Leaves infomuch as 

 the Order of the Foliatanes was put down by the Pope, as finding Leaves un- 

 able to Nourilh Mans Body. Whether there be that difference in the 

 Flefhof Living Creatures ,1$ not well enquired : As whether Livers, and o- 

 ther Entr aits ,be not more Nouriming,thanthe Outward Flefh. We find that 

 amonglt the Romans, z Goofe's Liver was a great delicacy Infomuch as they 

 had Artificiall means to make it fair, and great But. whether it were more 

 Nouriming, appeareth not. It is certain, that Marrow is more Nouri- 

 Ibing than Fat. And I conceive that fome Decoction of Bones, and Si- 

 ne nw,ftamped,and well ftrained, would be a very Neurifhing Broth : We 

 find alfo that Scotch Sktnck (which is a Pottage of ftrong Nourifhment) is 



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